[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 71 points 2 months ago

People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that's neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don't see what all the fuss is about.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 91 points 3 months ago

Look, if you don't want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah...you should probably pay attention.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 71 points 7 months ago

Baking is chemistry, cooking is jazz.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 78 points 7 months ago

It's a matter of perspective and use


high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

I'd much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 73 points 10 months ago

Guy buying condoms? He's hoping to get some.

Guy buying tampons? He's definitely getting some.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 79 points 1 year ago

How about we give parents one extra vote per child.

But they have to wait 18 years to use it.

And they can't directly use it, it's more that they get a delegate of sorts.

And this delegate


let's call them, I dunno, ~~their kid~~ "offspring voter"


isn't legally bound to vote one way or another.

And how about this person votes in a manner that in some way reflects how they were raised, and their worldy experiences


possibly voting exactly as the parents would, or possibly exactly opposite, or anywhere in between.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 75 points 1 year ago

Having survived grad school and then some without a dishwasher, I will never look at loading/unloading the dishwasher as a chore; it is a privilege to do so (and is always followed by a heartfelt Thank You to that most selfless of appliances).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 77 points 1 year ago

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 70 points 1 year ago

Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It's almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed


there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!

I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it's independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still...the computer "knows" what it's displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. Print out 8KB on high quality paper.
  2. Store in good environment...
[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 86 points 1 year ago

Have a kid...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 69 points 1 year ago

Not really though


from NPS:

The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above.

I think the dinosaur moment would be more of a global phenomenon, e.g., rising ocean temperature. My understanding is that Death Valley is obscenely hot with or without humans. The rising ocean temperature and melting ice caps, on the other hand...🦖🌎💥

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